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Phone locked in SOS Mode After Traveling from Denver to Pittsburgh
Upon traveling from Denver to Pittsburgh my iphone 13 Mini would not connect with T-Mobile cell service and was locked in SOS mode the day after arriving, it did work the day of arrival. In 3 visits ...
It was worth a shot. There were multiple threads like this on Apple support.
It's strange that this happened while you were in the air and presumably had the phone in airplane mode.
Try going to swappa.com and do an imei# check. If it's been reported lost or stolen it will let you know that the phone can't be sold on their site.
Good luck getting this sorted out.
